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Well, my wife may be blowing sunshine, she loves me after all, but we don't think I look 60 (49-1/2 perhaps?). So, the interview wouldn't necessarily be torpedoed by my age. As someone else said, my experience and sunny demeanor might then have a chance to shine through. I think I'll take the advice of the guy who suggested I begin the CV in '81, not '69. Then I'm only 48, right?
AJ Marino

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date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 08:07:32 -0800
from: Bill
subject: Re: [MIDRANGE-JOBS] A Question of Age

amarino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'd like some input on this. My resume ends with my earliest
job experience which was 12 years at IBM as an SE. The problem
is that since the dates on that are 1969 - 1981, a potential
employer can easily calculate my age range and decide, sight
unseen, that I'm too old. (I'm wiser and more intellectually
energetic now than I was at 40, by the way.)
Do we think that maybe I should start my resume job history
in, say, 1981 (making me appear to be a lad of 40+) and forget
about all that good experience at Big Blue (at least until I get
the prospective job)?

If you think they'd exclude you due to your age by scanning your
resume,
why do you think they wouldn't do the same thing during the
interview phase?

Bill


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message: 2
date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:43:04 -0500
from: "M. Lazarus"
subject: Re: [MIDRANGE-JOBS] A Question of Age

Bill,

The simple answer is that often HR does the initial cut, based
on
dry specs from the resume. Once you've passed through the
gatekeeper
and get to a face to face interview, hopefully your expertise
can
shine through.

-mark


At 1/21/08 11:07 AM, Bill wrote:
amarino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'd like some input on this. My resume ends with my earliest
job
experience which was 12 years at IBM as an SE. The problem is
that
since the dates on that are 1969 - 1981, a potential employer
can
easily calculate my age range and decide, sight unseen, that
I'm
too old. (I'm wiser and more intellectually energetic now than
I
was at 40, by the way.)
Do we think that maybe I should start my resume job history
in,
say, 1981 (making me appear to be a lad of 40+) and forget
about
all that good experience at Big Blue (at least until I get the
prospective job)?

If you think they'd exclude you due to your age by scanning
your resume,
why do you think they wouldn't do the same thing during the
interview phase?

Bill



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message: 3
date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 11:54:22 -0500
from: rob@xxxxxxxxx
subject: Re: [MIDRANGE-JOBS] A Question of Age

There's a lot of truth to this. I know of a company "back in
the day"
that often discarded resume's that had social security numbers
associated
with "hillbillies".

Rob Berendt
--
Group Dekko Services, LLC
Dept 01.073
PO Box 2000
Dock 108
6928N 400E
Kendallville, IN 46755
http://www.dekko.com





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Bill,

The simple answer is that often HR does the initial cut, based
on
dry specs from the resume. Once you've passed through the
gatekeeper
and get to a face to face interview, hopefully your expertise
can
shine through.

-mark


At 1/21/08 11:07 AM, Bill wrote:
amarino@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
I'd like some input on this. My resume ends with my earliest
job
experience which was 12 years at IBM as an SE. The problem is
that
since the dates on that are 1969 - 1981, a potential employer
can
easily calculate my age range and decide, sight unseen, that
I'm
too old. (I'm wiser and more intellectually energetic now than
I
was at 40, by the way.)
Do we think that maybe I should start my resume job history
in,
say, 1981 (making me appear to be a lad of 40+) and forget
about
all that good experience at Big Blue (at least until I get the
prospective job)?

If you think they'd exclude you due to your age by scanning
your resume,
why do you think they wouldn't do the same thing during the
interview
phase?

Bill

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